Lena Pérez

About Me

I was born in 1974 Habana, Cuba. I studied Psychology at Havana University. After I finished my studies in 1997 I went first to Columbia and later to Sweden to do a Master. In 2005 I came to Germany. I had experienced how it feels like when you are far away from family and friend. I have asked myself; what can I do now to be myself in spite of changes? How do I find my place when everything is new around me? I reached the conclusion that wherever I do there is neither right nor wrong. In the end we are the sculptor of our lives. I live today in Berlin with my husband and my daughter.

Since I finished my studies in Psychology I have been working as counselor and psychotherapist with adolescents and adult. The subject of my thesis for a degree in Psychology was about couple relationship between young adults. Later for my master thesis in Sweden I did a research about influence of the culture in the couple relationship between Swedish and Latin Americans. When I came to Germany I was more interested in the subject of migration. Then I decided to write my Ph.D. about motivations of Latin Americans to migrate to Germany and how they find their place in the German society.

1974 born in Havana, Cuba

1997 graduated in Psychology at Havana University, Cuba

1997-1999 work as psychologist in the hospital “Freyre Andrade”. Havana, Cuba

1999-2000 International Master in Social Work and Sociology. Gothenburg University, Sweden

2000-2004 Work as psychologist in the art school “Eduardo García Delgado” and in the Center for Prevention of AIDS/HIV in Havana, Cuba

Since 2005 living in Berlin, Germany

2005-2013 working as counselor for migrants and family assistant and studying in Berlin, Germany